Like most of you I often buy batches of pipes when I'm really only after a couple of them, and intend (in the best of cases) to restore and resell the other pipes. I bought a few rarities and this thing came with the package. It's so beat up that I can't resell it, but it looks like it will make a nice casual pipe for around the house or a walk to the park. Insofar as I can tell the pipe has had the shank crack (perhaps someone sat on it), both where it meets the bowl and where it meets the stem, and the stem is obviously a replacement (i.e. obviously not Cumberland) and the white "spot" seems to want to jump out and is off-center. Someone dinged the rim and chewed the stem as well. It's also got the "SLV" (nickel alloy?) repair band. I soaked it in alcohol for several days to see if the big glue-repair joining the shank to the bowl would come undone and it hasn't so I mostly wanted to sanitize (ream, alcohol, Murphy's oils soap on the exterior, 3000-grit wet-or-dry on the stem) the pipe to make it smokable and pick a little of the excess glue out of the crack. The whole pipe gives me the impression of being "off" and oddly asymmetrical (axial torsion), but it's a large quarter-bent pot sitter with a dome-shaped shank cross-section which is dilated at the juncture between the stem and shank. It's more of a clean-up really, as attempting a restoration would probably be pointless.
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